Автор: Banks,Iain M (Бэнкс И)Название: Look to windward (Палата ветров)Издательство:Little, BrownКлассификация: Научная фантастикаISBN: 1841490598ISBN-13(EAN): 9781841490595ISBN: 1-84149-059-8ISBN-13(EAN): 978-1-84149-059-5Обложка/Формат: PaperbackСтраницы: 403Вес: 0.282 кг.Дата издания: 02.08.2001Язык: EngИздание: New edРазмер: 196 x 127 x 28Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)Рейтинг:Поставляется из: АнглииОписание: Offers 36 laws on life and spirituality. It was one of the less glorious incidents of the Idiran wars that led to the destruction of two suns and the billions of lives they supported. Now, 800 years later, the light from the first of those deaths has reached the Culture`s Masaq` Orbital. A Chelgrian emissary is dispatched to the Culture.Дополнительное описание: Imprint: OrbitFormat: B

Автор: Banks,Iain MНазвание: ExcessionISBN: 185723457X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781857234572Издательство: Little, BrownРейтинг:Цена: 5470 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.Описание: The complex relations between territory and the social sciences are explained by investigators from different disciplines: geography, economy, sociology and history. This title demonstrates the vigor of the concept of space within the social sciences in general, and within the historical social sciences in particular. Two and a half millennia ago, the Excession, a perfect black sphere, appeared in a remote corner of space. It did nothing, then disappeared. Now it is back, and someone who saw it the first time has information on its staggering potential, but she is living out her death in the Sleeper Service. Selected proceedings from the first European Conference on Integrated Research for Soil and Sediment Protection and Remediation, reflecting a number of multidisciplinary soil research programmes taking place in several European countries.

Автор: Banks,Iain MНазвание: InversionsISBN: 1857237633 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781857237634Издательство: Little, BrownРейтинг:Цена: 5470 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.Описание: In the winter palace, the King`s new physician has more enemies than she at first realizes, but she also has more remedies to hand than those who wish her ill can know about. In another palace across the mountains, the chief bodyguard of the regicidal Protector General also has his enemies.

Автор: Banks,Iain MНазвание: Player Of GamesISBN: 1857231465 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781857231465Издательство: Little, BrownРейтинг:Цена: 4920 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.Описание: From the author of "Consider Phlebas", this is a story of one of the greatest game-players the culture has ever produced. Respected and rarely beaten, he is successful at almost everything he attempts. Feeling unfulfilled he asks whose job it is to find something that might challenge him.

Автор: Banks,Iain MНазвание: AlgebraistISBN: 1841492299 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781841492292Издательство: Little, BrownРейтинг:Цена: 6400 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year.

Автор: Banks,Iain MНазвание: MatterISBN: 1841494194 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781841494197Издательство: Little, BrownРейтинг:Цена: 5470 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: The dazzling new Culture novel from one of the most exciting science-fiction writers of modern times - a tour de force of brilliant storytelling, world-building and imagination.

Автор: Banks,Iain MНазвание: State Of The ArtISBN: 1857230302 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781857230307Издательство: Little, BrownРейтинг:Цена: 5470 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.Описание: A collection of short fiction by the author of "The Wasp Factory" and "Against a Dark Background". The title story is a novella continuing the "Culture" sequence but set on Earth in 1977. The other stories range from science fiction to horror, and dark-coated fantasy to morality tale.

Автор: Banks,Iain MНазвание: Use Of WeaponsISBN: 185723135X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781857231359Издательство: Little, BrownРейтинг:Цена: 6260 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: Cheradenine is an ex-"special circumstance" agent who had been raised to eminence by a woman named Diziet. Skaffen-Amtskaw, the drone, had saved her life and it believes Cheradenine to be a burnt-out case. But not even its machine intelligence can see the horrors in his past.